Avast ye Literary Lascaradoes ! Being of a mutinous Difposition,Ye Editor hath hoift thif Blogges true Colours to ye royal-top , to get the weather Gage of ye Burgee of Bones for tis Talk Like A Pirate Day , and here bee
Academic anthropology be in
crisis, says Dan Sperber, who be not alarmed. (Yarrr, into the futtock
shrouds ) “It deserves t' be in crisis. (Weigh anchor!) It deserves t'
explode, let it do so”... (Bloody privateers!) more»
“The semicolon be
ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly, I pinch 'em out o' me prose,” says
Donald Barthelme. (Blimey!) Other writers disagree... more»
What they’re readin' at the
kitchen table. (Gangway!) Home-schoolers o' all stripes find common
ground in superb but nearly forgotten books... (Sink me!) Piracy has a long 'n brutal ahoystory. (Bilge!) How it has
been treated in law makes a useful precedent for terrorism... (Prepare to
dance the hempen jig, matey!) Translate the Bible, but don’t try t' “explain” it with yer
translation: you’ll just trivialize its grand solemnity 'n epic sweep...T’is
mostly fit for a Black Spot (Aaarrrrhhh!) more»
New-Captured .......Logs......... Till the 18th century,
Scots, like other Europeans, saw distilled spirits as medicine. (Shiver me
timbers!) Then a few Jockoes started t'drink whisky for fun... (Pass the Demerara, mate) From Voltaire 'n David Hume
t' Rob Ingersoll 'n Clarence Darrow, atheism used t' be on the march,
religion on the aft foot. (Blimey!) Times change... more» Th’doxy was dazzled by Sartre’s brilliance as a
philosopher. (Blimey!) For Simone de Beauvoir, terms like “essence” or
“contin'ency” worked like a chest O’gold pistoles'... (Aaarrhhh, ) Belay yer blubbering of hurricanoes,New Orleens! that City o' floods, graceful “Can somethin' be achieved upstream O Hormuz worthy o' the sacrifice ? Hilde Kschessinska: prima ballerina
assoluta, mistress o' Czar Nicholas II – a poppet o' vast skill, massive
energy, 'n implacable willfulness... (Dead men tell no tales.) If we ever
find out that a basic tenet o' Buddhism be shown false by science, we simply
must give it up. Who said it? The Dalai Lama... The kirtled
lubber. more»
Don’t be shocked at the sad
fate o' the Big Easy. (Be ye ready to walk the plank?) history be littered
with “eternal” cities brought low by flood, plague, or
man-made disaster... (Weigh anchor!)
Christopher Hitchens be a man whose passion outruns 'is reason.
(Blimey!) He can be fun t' read 'n t' argue with, but.smart as paint? Sink
me! more»
Søren Kierkegaard , The scurvy quacksalver,rebuked the Christianity
o' 'is day: rather than get rid o' the whorehouse, it preferred t' baptize
it... (Arrgh!) more» The FDA bans absinthe, as it be adulterated” with wormwood. (Arr!) Still, customs agents will typically ignore a
bottle or two in yer suitcase... (Yarrr, more grog, wench!) (Aaaarrrhhh!!!) Most Utopias are
odorless, antiseptic futures, intolerably streamlined 'n sensible, with
splendid plumbin'... (Bilge!) more» However baggywrinkle 'is private life,Arthur Koestlerport behind an absorbin' body o' work for anyone who enjoys the battle o' ideas... Sure, it’s naive t' think that all moral beliefs be universal. (The chase is making full sail, matey!) But thar may be an innate “moral sense” across cultures... (Damn me eyes.) If Michel Houellebecq calls Islam “the stupidest religion in the world,” well, aft all, he was drunk. (Yaaarrrr!) It’s when he writes 'bout sex... (Yo-ho-ho!) “Nay iron can pierce the
heart with such force as a period put just at the starboard place” Raymond
Carver above all loved precise writin'... (Aaaarrrhhh!!!) more»
Thar be genuine intensity
in the sufferin' o' Frida Kahlo. Yet thar be somethin' vaguely repulsive in the adulation she receives.
Victimhood, aft all, be not beatitude... (Bloody landlubber!) more»
“Booty doesn’t
buy happiness.” Oh, aye? (Yaaarrrr!) A strong correlation exists between
the wealth o' a country 'n its general level o' happiness. (Gangway!) But as
Aristotle. (Bloody Turkadoe !) knew... more» Democracy? (The chase is making full sail, matey!) Good governance can include many components besides
democratic participation, says Francis Fukuyama. (Bloody landlubber!)
Consider the case o' Sin'apore , ye
Lascar dogs!) God looks after bilge rats, drunks, children, 'n the USA. Did God “I have felt it meself,” Freeman Dyson said.
(Aaaarrrhhh!!!) “The glitter o' nuclear weapons. (Aaarrrrhhh!) It be
irresistible if ye come t' 'em as a scientist: an illusion o' illimitable
power.”... more»
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If the Kayak Corsairess Mifstress Palin's raid on the Potomac mifcarries, will she run for Governor of the Spanish Main like a born- again Joan Bonney, or end up pleading her belly in Execution Dock to please pro-life palaeo-pyrates?
The quarterdeck of Obama Reis begala is abuzz with scuttlebutt
of sinning badly..
more»
In Prince-Towne up the Delaware, where Richard
Rorty did avast himself a “syncretist hack.” the scurvy scrivner
caulked a philosophical mosaic fair and bye... more» Robert
Trivers loves the logic o' evolution.That dead men tell no tales be
bilge- Philosopher's Mate Darwin o'ye barque Beagle dead reckoned a
geometry o' time yar as the geometry o' space that
Should local folk rebuild N'Orleans
Ye &Pyrates
A warmin' earth ? We be for it! The fig of Spain for all the monsoon, mega-drought, n' malaria scuttlebutt- if it be mild as the Bight O’Benin, make after them polar bears through the Northwest Passage, and plunder the China Trade ! more>
Editin' be a bloody trade. (Arrgh!) But knives aren’t the exclusive property o' butchers. (Aaarrrrhhh!) Surgeons use 'em too. (Yo-ho-ho!)Blake Morrisondefends editors wi’rusty cutlasses... (Aarhh!) more» Should local folk rebuild N'Orleans
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Be quotation marks the new boldface? Arrh,'tis as a grog shop sign hailing “FINE FOOD”? Aye , but don’t expect such usage to overhaul Bristol fashion English... more»
How can yer Arab left openly embrace Muslims listing far to starboard?
, says Hussein Ibish, (By the Black Spot, A Salee Cap'n sure) such
matey gestures be never returned except by a poxy kiss o'Davey Jones
... more»
Al-Qaeda's hard aground upstream o'Basra, so the lascars be moving the jihad to Europe... more»... Turn Turk, Osama says, and the Grand Porte will discount its scurvy port dues dockside !!
Antarctica be a red state. March o' the Penguins ‘affirms
norms O The Code like monogamy
sacrifice'n child rearin'” says a critic. But some o' those penguins be
gay... (Bilge!)
Yarrgh! I be sailin' intar this port ever night and nought but drygoods, books, and flotsam do I gaff, then waste the tide following Cap'n Paulson, who be the greatest pirate in history. When I come back to find chests of gold, emptied, the ship o' time sailed and nought but whale tracks for an honeft pyrite. "Fools gold" say I, "and watered Rum to boot!" An' all thif tyme, I be using Master Johnson as as a bilge pump only. Yarr!
Posted by: Jeff Albert | September 25, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many pirate crews operated as limited democracies. Pirate communities were some of the first to instate a system of checks and balances similar to the one used by the present-day United States and many other countries. The first record of such a government aboard a pirate sloop dates to the 1600s, a full century before the United States' and France's adoption of democracy in 1789, or Spain's move to democracy in 1812.Both the captain and the quartermaster were elected by the crew; they, in turn, appointed the other ship's officers. The captain of a pirate ship was often a fierce fighter in whom the men could place their trust, rather than a more traditional authority figure sanctioned by an elite. However, when not in battle, the quartermaster usually had the real authority. Many groups of pirates shared in whatever they seized; pirates injured in battle might be afforded special compensation similar to medical or disability insurance.
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